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「 Microsoft ® Visio 2000 視覺化管理應用」 Developing Application Solutions using Visio 2000 Shawn Tng Regional Technical Manager Microsoft Asia

Agenda  Visio 2000 Structure  User Environment Basics  Visio Stencil Basics  Visio VBA  Connections To Data  Integration with BackOffice  Windows 2000 Active Directory  Exchange Server 2000  SQL Server 2000  Demos  Learning Objectives  Conclusion

Visio Working Environment Basics  Visio SmartShapes  Stencils  Drawing Page  Tools (and Wizards)  Hyperlinking  Layering Objects  ShapeSheet  manipulating shapes behavior and properties  parametric programming

Visio Stencil Basics  Visio Stencil is a collection of master shapes  Stencils are editable, ie., master shapes in a stencil can be added, modified or removed  Master shapes in a stencil can be linked to a database  Master vs. Shape Instance  To create new stencil  File>Stencils>New Stencil

Visio 2000 VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)  Current version: 6.0  Each Visio drawing and stencil document includes its own VBA Project  Includes MSForms, ActiveX controls, Automation … capabilities like all other Office Applications products  Visio VBA can call out to the services of other Automation servers => dump drawing data to Access, create reports in Excel …

Connections To Data  Many Visio solution scenarios involve using or producing external data, such as business data from SQL database  Database Wizard  sets up a connection with an ODBC database  allows one to specify how table rows and fields correspond to Visio shapes and cells  Alternatively, one can use ADO/DAO to access databases in VBA environment

Integration with Windows 2000 Active Directory  Visio can read and store Active Directory Service information in a Visio document  AD information can be written-out via LDAP  In VBA, include the Active DS object library references to access AD data, such as:  Active DS Type Library  Active DS IIS Extension Dll  Active DS IIS Namespace Provider  IADs Tools  …

Integration with Exchange 2000  To access objects in VBA, include appropriate Exchange 2000 object libraries. Example:  Microsoft CDO For Exchange 2000 Library  MS CDO For Exchange Mgt Lib  MS Exchange Conference Administration Type Lib  Microsoft Exchange IM Client 1.0 Type Library (found in SDK file MSIMHost.exe)  …  Functions/Methods are referenced via standard calling procedure

Integration with Exchange 2000

Integration with SQL Server 2000  SQL data can be connected via including such appropriate object libraries like:  Microsoft DAO 3.51 Object Library  Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.5 Library  Microsoft XML, ver2.0  Microsoft SQL Distribution Control Library 7.0  OLAP Add-In Manager  Microsoft Data Source Interfaces  Microsoft Report Designer v6.0  …

Integration with SQL Server 2000

Conclusion  Combining Visio ShapeSheet and VBA provide a powerful development platform to build solutions  Referencing the various Object Libraries enable us integrate Visio with W2K, Exchange2K and other Office Applications  The Microsoft Office Application development platform is extensible, robust and interoperable

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